Writing Centre
Learning Goals: Literacy, Emergent Writing, Communication, Expression
- Students write letters, make cards, create stories, or any other form of expression to communicate their ideas on paper at the Writing Centre.
- Writing can take many different forms. Children can use drawing, symbols, and inventive spelling to write and communicate their ideas.
- Placing the writing centre near classroom resources, such as a word wall or alphabet chart, will help facilitate children’s writing.
- Educators can engage with children in the writing centre to support and extend children’s writing development.
- Paper
- Coloured paper
- Lined paper
- Variety of writing instruments (pencils, markers, etc.)
- Display examples of student work
- Writing resources (e.g. name cards, sight word wall, alphabet strip, etc.)
- The educator created the learning centre with a specific goal in mind; to write letters.
- Within this centre, the children decided what to write and how they would use the materials while the educator interacted with the children to support and extend their writing.
